So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.